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(in the winter) they are as often used.
Why this
should be, seeing that temperatures never drop to
freezing point, I do not exactly know.
The
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War Office reasons are the popular science version
most generally accepted: to which can be added the
fact that coal in Hong Kong (which mostly comes from
north China) is generally of poor quality as compared
with home and does not give out a comparable heat.
(The War Department in Hong Kong may, of course, have
their own sources of supply).
All I can say is that if I were limited
throughout the Hong Kong winter to half the amount of
fuel used in England I would feel distinctly
aggrieved - and also, I am quite sure, distinctly
chilly.
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